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Painters' colony of Muros

Muros de Nalón, Avilés, Asturias

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Painters' colony of Muros

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The Muros artists' colony, also called the La Pumariega school of painting, brought together a group of painters between 1884 and 1890 at the La Pumariega estate, in the concejo of Muros de Nalón. It was founded by the painter Casto Plasencia, from La Alcarria, after accepting a summer invitation from his pupil and friend, the Asturian Tomás García Sampedro, to stay at his parents' estate. Following the model of the Barbizon school, its members painted from life, mixing landscape and scenes of everyday life in the manner of Jules Breton or Jean-François Millet. In early 1890 the town council authorised a project for a permanent home for the colony, but Plasencia's death, in May of that year, officially dissolved the group, leaving Muros linked to landscape painting.

Photo: Igneus at English Wikipedia (CC BY 2.5)

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